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The plight of a nineteenth century schoolteacher, trapped by her duty to her job, is mirrored by a modern day woman’s fight to escape the shackles of a broken marriage. Bess Hardemon, a tough and canny young teacher living in the mid-nineteenth century, is determined to make a difference at her new school, Priors Heath. Under the austere gaze of the Reverend Carnegie and his deputy, Miss Simms, the young girls remain underfed and unstimulated – until the arrival of the bright, motivated young Bess. At the cost of her own chance of finding love, Bess remains trapped by her duty, a confinement echoed a century later by Sarah, a teacher at the modern-day Priors Heath who must make her own choice between her duty to her pupils and her efforts to save a broken marriage.
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Confinement, Katharine McMahon
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1999
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- Titel
- Confinement
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Katharine McMahon
- Verlag
- Flamingo
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1999
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0006550800
- ISBN13
- 9780006550808
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historische Romane, Britische Literatur
- Bewertung
- 3,35 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- The plight of a nineteenth century schoolteacher, trapped by her duty to her job, is mirrored by a modern day woman’s fight to escape the shackles of a broken marriage. Bess Hardemon, a tough and canny young teacher living in the mid-nineteenth century, is determined to make a difference at her new school, Priors Heath. Under the austere gaze of the Reverend Carnegie and his deputy, Miss Simms, the young girls remain underfed and unstimulated – until the arrival of the bright, motivated young Bess. At the cost of her own chance of finding love, Bess remains trapped by her duty, a confinement echoed a century later by Sarah, a teacher at the modern-day Priors Heath who must make her own choice between her duty to her pupils and her efforts to save a broken marriage.